In addition to hundreds of exploits and payloads, Moore said Metasploit 3.0 also ships with 30 auxiliary modules to perform tasks like host discovery, protocol fuzzing, and denial-of-service testing. See Ryan Naraine's report on the new version here.

The web interface (msfweb) is a Ruby on Rails application that uses the Prototype JavaScript Framework to provide in-browser windowing support. Asynchronous JavaScript is used to provide as-you-type search results for any module type and provide tab completion for the web console interface.

Published: March 27, 2007 -- 12:36 GMT (05:36 PDT)

Caption by: Ryan Naraine

The Metasploit console interface has a new "route" command that allows all network connections to a given subnet to be routed through an existing session.

Published: March 27, 2007 -- 12:36 GMT (05:36 PDT)

Caption by: Ryan Naraine

A help menu provides assistance for pen testers.

Published: March 27, 2007 -- 12:36 GMT (05:36 PDT)

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Metasploit modules are now organized in a directory structure instead of a single flat directory. A caching system provides faster loading times. The result is a scalable system that can manage hundreds of different modules at a time (over 300 alone in this release).

Published: March 27, 2007 -- 12:36 GMT (05:36 PDT)

Caption by: Ryan Naraine

Visual evidence of a successful VNC code execution exploit.

Published: March 27, 2007 -- 12:36 GMT (05:36 PDT)

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A "priv" extension (accessible by the "use priv" command) provides the hashdump command for dumping password hashes and the timestomp command for erasing file system timestamps.

Published: March 27, 2007 -- 12:36 GMT (05:36 PDT)

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hanks to Ruby's in-process threading support, it is possible to share a single Metasploit instance with other users, exploit multiple hosts at the same time, and run persistent background services, while only consuming the system resources of a single process.

HD Moore's open-source Metasploit Framework has been rewritten from scratch and released with 177 exploits, 104 payloads and new modules to exploit Wi-Fi driver vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel.In addition to hundreds of exploits and payloads, Moore said Metasploit 3.0 also ships with 30 auxiliary modules to perform tasks like host discovery, protocol fuzzing, and denial-of-service testing. See Ryan Naraine's report on the new version here.

In addition to hundreds of exploits and payloads, Moore said Metasploit 3.0 also ships with 30 auxiliary modules to perform tasks like host discovery, protocol fuzzing, and denial-of-service testing. See Ryan Naraine's report on the new version here.